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Japa Talk Transcription
Date - 28th March
Speaker - Keshav Prabhu
Topic- On the occasion of Maha Abhishek of Pancha tatva in Mayapur
HG Dharmaraj prabhu speaks – All obeisance unto Gurumaharaj,Today amongst us we have Keshav Prabhu wo ih known all over,he preaches extensively and is incharge of the Bhagvad Katha held every year in Pune.
HG Keshav Prabhu speaks – All Glories to Gurumaharaj and Shrila Parbhupad.I am fortunate to be able to speak here,we are receiving mercy of Gurumaharaj since so many years now.So first we will talk about a few places like Mayapur, Kolhapur and Dehu where Gurumaharaj visited ,we will talk about the Gurumaharaj’s Kirtan.
Prabhuji recites mangalacharan prayers
Description of Gurumaharaj’s yatraabdabhishek
We reached Mayapur dham,first we saw the opening of the Narasimha temple,just like we saw the inauguration of the Ayodhya temple similarly we saw the opening of the Narasimha temple.This is an international temple so it was a special opening.Everything was of Gold.Specially the best part was Gurumaharaj’s kirtan and large amounts of donation were collected.Theabhishek was very mesmerizing when Gurumaharaj specially did the abhishek for Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhuwithchandan,last year Gurumaharaj had done the abhishek of only Advait Acharya.Gurumaharaj’skirtan during abhishek was very nice.Gurumaharaj sang the vaishnav song “Sri Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu Doya Koro More”.Just like Shrila Prabhupad preached about Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the world similarly Gurumaharaj is also preaching about Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the entire world.So after this Gurumaharaj took the charanamrita,kirtan mela was going on and everybody took Prasad.
From here Gurumaharaj went to Jagannath Puri in Pachora for program and then came to Pandharpur for program.From here Gurumharaj travelled to Jalgaon where he covered 8 villages in 8 hours he did preaching.
Then Maharaj reached Kolhapur where he inaugurated the Radha Krishna temple and then next morning he reached at 6 in the morning for the pranpratishtha of the deities.
Shayan Adivas
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had also come to Kolhapur and visited the Mahalaxmi temple for darshan.Mahalaxmi appears from the internal potency of Krishna which is Radharani.There was shayanadivas before the pranpatishtha.Every morning we see the Lord in standing position but shayanadivas is the only one day where the Lord is resting and the place is decorated with flowers and devotees delight to see this.Everyday we only make the smaller deities sleep but in shayanadivas the bigger deities are made to sleep.
In the morning we woke the Lord up by 6 and the procedure then started,even Bhakti Rasamrita Swami Maharaj was present.
All these are procedures but when the sadhus call for the Lord He has to actually come so similarly when Gurumaharaj called for the Lord to come He has to come,just like Advait Acharya called for Mahaprabhu by Ganga Water and Tulsi leaves.
The yagna before abhishek
The Sutanand Prabhu and his associates,Jagannath Kripa Prabhu,Radha Bhav prabhu from nigdi and after the recitation of all mantras the Lord appears and a thread is also offered.BhaktiRasamrita Swami Maharaj was reciting the mantra for Srimati Radharani and Gurumaharaj was reciting for Krishna.From Yagna Narayan itself the Lord appears in different forms as the mantra recitation goes on.After this Gurumaharaj did the “vaishnavhom” for all the devotees.
After this the program was ended with the last sacrifices done in the fire which was done by GuruMaharaj with the recitation of vedic mantras.
After this the big deity was taken in the pandal and different bhoga offerings were done,there was beautiful decoration done,all the devotees got the chance for abhishek and different sevas and there was Prasad for everyone then everybody also took darshan of Kolhapur Mahalaxmi.
Kirtan of Gurumaharaj
Gurumaharaj sang the special vaishnav song “Jay Radha Madhav”Then Radha Gopinath prabhu asked Gurumaharaj that our deities should have a special name,soGurumaharaj gave the name “SRI SRI RADHA MADHAV KI JAY” .Radhanath maharaj said that this Radha madhav is the Lord of Lakshmi but not of vaikunth but He is the same Lord of goloka itself.
There is no difference in Guru tatva,just like Gurumaharaj sand Radha Madhav ,HH Radhanath swami also sang Radha Madhav at the same time with full devotion.
Now wherever Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has gone in Kolhapur,those foot imprints(19 footprints) are placed in Kolhapur.
There were worshipped by Gurumaharaj and then Gurumaharaj came to perform the first arati of Sri Sri Radha Madhav.
Gurumaharaj says that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came to Kolhapur and took the names of Krishna so similarly Mahaprabhu gave his form also” Sri Krishna Chaitanya Radha Krishna nahi Anya”.
There deities are just like Mayapur only difference is that they are small.
Then there was the first aarti in the evening and after that Gurumaharaj ordered that the evening lecture be given by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami Maharaj and then we went for the darshan of Mahalakshmi.Just like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu took the darshan of Mahalakshmi similarly Maharajji took the darshan of Mahalakshmi in the evening.
Brahmaji sings in Brahma samhita-
cintamaṇi-prakara-sadmasukalpa-vṛkṣa
lakṣavrtesusurabhirabhipalayantam
laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam
govindamadi-purusam tam ahambhajami
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakshmi or gopis.[Brahma Samhita 5.29]
Icchalkaranji temple program and construction site
Then we rested at Krishna rasayan prabhu’s house then we did our japa,then Maharaj headed towards Icchalkaranji which was followed by a nice Japa Talk.In the japa talk Gurumaharaj explained how before the birth of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu his Guru’s had taken birth,Mahaprabhu’s childhood pastimes.We have got a land of 3 acres in Icchalkaranji and there are 84 pillars here to get rid of 84 births.84 is a very important number,there are 84 yonis,it is also there in Nandagaon and kamyavan and in 84 seconds also the Ram Mandir was opened.
Krishna Rasayan prabhu(donated 2 cr) and Shahastranaam prabhu(donated 40 lakhs) have helped a lot financially.Gurumaharajsais that he has no tension for the collection of this temple.ThenGurumaharaj took the report of everybody’s service and blessed everyone.
Then Gurumaharaj also checked the construction site and allotted service to everyone till Radhashtami half service of the temple will be ready.
Then we left from Icchalkaranji.Gurumharaj always keeps chanting,reads the chaitnyacharitamrita and He keeps practicing the Sanskrit classes which is very beloved to Him with Param sundarPrabhu.Gurumaharaj studies each shloka very deeply.He studies one word and tries to understand the different meaning of each word (prati-kshanasvadana-lolupasya)
Gurumaharaj’s Pune visit
Then Gurumaharaj reached Pune and then went to DehuIskcon.We have purchased 15 acres land in Dehu for Iskcon and in nigdi the 13thBrahmotsva was celebratedwhos Pran Patishtha was done by HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj and Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj.
They have very a nice altar which decoration of an umbrella.The Lord was bathed with waters of different colours for Holi.In the remeberance of Tukaram Maharaj Gurumaharaj sand different abhanga’s like Gokulichasukha and sundartedyana.
In the nigdi temple Maharaj was introduced with nice information.They said that Maharashtra is the land of saints we have heard so many but not seen them,but today we can see one saint in front of us.Gurumaharaj is the only one who speaks with us in Marathi we feel more attached to him.
Kirtan of Gurumaharaj is being played.
Gurumaharaj was saying that just like Tukaram Maharaj went back to godhead we can also just take the names of the Lord and go back to godhead(naam se dhamtak).One devotee once came to Tukaram Maharaj that we should not take the names of the Lord which our daily morning chores but from every art of Tukaram Maharaj we can hear the names of the Lord,the road from which Tukaram Maharaj used to walk even that land would say the names of Vithala.He was so great.
Lord Vitthal gave darshan to Tukaram Maharaj.He was not able to walk once in the dindi once which he would walk every year so he wrote a letter to Shri Vithala that he would not be able to come.Gurumaharaj is completing the left over targets of Tukaram Maharaj by preaching the names of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
In this way Gurumaharaj has spread the names of Lord Vithala in many places like Russia and Mauritius and has spread the padayatra in 108 places with the same Hare Krishna Mahamantra.
Childhood pastime of Mahaprabhu
Once Mahaprabhu came out of the house when He was small and He saw a very large snake there but Mahaprabhu dint get scared but instead played with the snake because He is the actual one who sleeps on the bad of snakes.Then is some time the snake went away from there.
In Chaitanya Bhagvat,Vrindavan Das thakur says that whoever will remember this leela will get liberated.Another katha is that once a Brahman had come to Jagannath Mishra’s house they asked him to take foor but the Brahman had a rule that he would himself cook and offer food to the Lord so as soon as he would offer the food Mahaprabhu would come and eat it but he was mistakened and thought that the the food had become impure.That Brahman thought that Brahmaji wants me to stay hungry today.He tried to offer food again but again Mahaprabhu started eating again.Then the Brahman said I will not make food at all now.Then Jagannath Mishra said that we will close Nimai in a room at night.That night when the Brahman offered food again Mahaprabhu gave him darshan.So in this way Mahaprabhu would give him darshan everyday and take Prasad.
In Chaitanya Bhagvat ,Mahaprabhu’schildhood pastimes are there and in Chaitanya Charitamrita the young days pastimes are present.
Once the ladies would go for the worship of Shivji but Mahaprabhu said that if you worship Shivji then you will get an old husband wo already has kids but if you worship Me then you will get a young husband like Me.
We shall all pray for HG Padmamali Prabhu as his health is not good.He is with us since many years and we are preaching together from 1996 in many places.We pray also for HG Dharmaraj prabhu so that his youth preaching increases.So we pray for all devotees here.
HG Dharmaraj prabhu thanks Keshav Prabhu for his association,he is very humble and we shall pray for him,he is like a role model for me.
Hare Krishna.Thankyou!!
